Mchale 991 bjs

TGJD

Anyone kno how to turn off the buzzer that sounds when you exceed 30rpm. It's headwrecking. Im aware it's a safety feature but it's set too low for the real world following two bales.

Greengrass1

TGJD wrote: »

Anyone kno how to turn off the buzzer that sounds when you exceed 30rpm. It's headwrecking. Im aware it's a safety feature but it's set too low for the real world following two bales.

I'd guess it's a tech job still would want the beeper to signal other things other wise open box and cut wires going to speaker?
I agree. I was wrapping the other day at 40rpm. They were light haylage bales normal silage I'd be at 31 32. Have had them fly off at higher speeds and it's not nice

Limestone Cowboy

TGJD wrote: »

Anyone kno how to turn off the buzzer that sounds when you exceed 30rpm. It's headwrecking. Im aware it's a safety feature but it's set too low for the real world following two bales.

It can definitely be done, I know I did it 5 or 6 years ago when the fella I was working for bought a new one but I can't remember now. I didn't have the manual for it either. Could always try sending an email to mchales or ringing them.

Zr105

I'm not sure with the bjs I know on the ber it's in the technicians menu alright! 30rpm is some pain of a speed alright, fair slows things down, mind you ya really need to watch them when ya start pushing 40+ they really can fly quite quickly!

Saw a pic of a bale wedged in the back of a Davy brown cab once, that musta took some doing

raypallas

Got one stuck between the table and the dispenser one night, no tractor and loader around. Had to drop the wrapper and pick it off with the hydraulic handler on my own yoke. The noise off the plastic gets fairly cruel at those speeds!

Limestone Cowboy

raypallas wrote: »

Got one stuck between the table and the dispenser one night, no tractor and loader around. Had to drop the wrapper and pick it off with the hydraulic handler on my own yoke. The noise off the plastic gets fairly cruel at those speeds!

I threw off a cruel amount of them the first few weeks I spent wrapping. Got the hang of it for a finish though and knew just by the sound of the plastic if I was going too fast or not. Always had to watch it around 7 and 14 wraps for the flat spot on the bale, that's when it'd fly!

Zr105

raypallas wrote: »

Got one stuck between the table and the dispenser one night, no tractor and loader around. Had to drop the wrapper and pick it off with the hydraulic handler on my own yoke. The noise off the plastic gets fairly cruel at those speeds!

Been there 2, luckily it was hayledge and kinda stayed sitting up enough that it could be rocked back.

Trouble with the bee is you'd get so used to it doing it all itself you'd stop watching constantly then next minute pop off goes the bale! But if you listen you'd normally hear the noise of the wrap start to change a turn or 2 before it comes off but not always 😔

Greengrass1

Wrecked our last wrapper doing that. Was wrecked any way had 100k plus bales on it.
Only 10 yr old wrapping bakes fir first time. Bale flew off and landed on the poles the holds the wrap. Moved off if them and them fell and pulled the cables. Got the season out of it but she was fooked

TGJD

Looking like it may have to go to a mechanic to turn it off when the work dies down a bit. As for the bales flying off, i'm fairly handy at keeping them on the table at high speed. I have a lot of experience built up over 10s of thousands of bales i've wrapped in the nearly 10 years i've been at it.

johndeere3350

There's a way to change it alright tink you keep two buttons pressed while your plugging it in.
I've it wrote down somewhere so I'll give a root around now

johndeere3350

Right press the CAL button while your turnig it on let it go and the speed the alarm goes off at comes up.
Ie 26
Hold set reset button then and it should go up in digits.
Power it off and on again and ypur away

TGJD

johndeere3350 wrote: »

Right press the CAL button while your turnig it on let it go and the speed the alarm goes off at comes up.
Ie 26
Hold set reset button then and it should go up in digits.
Power it off and on again and ypur away

That's excellent. Thanks man, i'll give that a go.

farmer lad

Outa interest how many bales a hour could you wrap going well?

TGJD

farmer lad wrote: »

Outa interest how many bales a hour could you wrap going well?

In the 50s on flatish ground. Would have to time myself again sometime and see.

johndeere3350

farmer lad wrote:

Outa interest how many bales a hour could you wrap going well?

Wrapped 60 an hour before.
Baled 99 bales in an hour before heavy crop of hay in a 30ft row

White Clover

johndeere3350 wrote: »

Wrapped 60 an hour before.
Baled 99 bales in an hour before heavy crop of hay in a 30ft row

Oul lad said he often made 1000 squares of hay per hour. Good big long rows.
MF 188 and Welger 61. Savage outfit in its day !

cute geoge

Is there a conor wrapper equivalent to mchale bjs .I see plenty of conor 9700j wrappers for sale but would not know if they have the servo joystick

White Clover

cute geoge wrote: »

Is there a conor wrapper equivalent to mchale bjs .I see plenty of conor 9700j wrappers for sale but would not know if they have the servo joystick

I'm sure there is, I think you do some contracting? If so, don't look beyond the McHale.
One local contractor tried every make over last 30 years, wouldn't buy McHale cause the 2 other locals had them. Finally relented last year when a new McHale bjs landed in the yard!

TGJD

cute geoge wrote: »

Is there a conor wrapper equivalent to mchale bjs .I see plenty of conor 9700j wrappers for sale but would not know if they have the servo joystick

If as the poster below said you do contracting I wouldn't bother with anything other than the mchale orbital. It makes all the others obsolete. Circa 100 bales an hr with much less pressure on the machinery and the driver. I wouldn't go back personally. Think they are worth the investment, every contractor should have one.